Juventus, attack target hangs in the balance: two knots to be solved

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Despite the experience at the Club World Cup, Juventus is on hiatus from challenges on the green rectangle but its management is working to build the squad that Igor Tudor will have at his disposal in the 2025-2026 season. The stated goal is the signing of Jadon Sancho: Manchester United, the club that holds the player&#8217s badge last year on loan at Chelsea, has opened the door to a permanent transfer but there are still two knots to be resolved to remove any obstacle to the success of the negotiation.

The first issue is that of the signing of the player.

The first issue is that of the cost of the transfer itself: the Red Devils’ management does not want to go lower than 25 million euros, while the Bianconeri’s offers, as reported by ‘Sky Sport‘, 10, adding 5 million in bonuses and banking on the need on the part of the Mancunians to sell the player, who has repeatedly expressed his desire to leave the club. The figure offered by the Bianconeri could rise in the coming days, but only if an agreement is reached on the sale, in Serie A or the Premier League itself, of Dusan Vlahovic, Nico Gonzalez, or both.

The second issue is related to the fact that the Bianconeri have not been able to sell the player.

The second issue, on the other hand, is related to the English footballer&#8217s salary: Sancho&#8217s entourage is willing to go a long way down from the approximately 15 mln he currently earns in the Premier League, but has proposed a 6 mln annual deal, still a high figure by current Serie A standards. The Bianconeri are banking on the player’s desire for revenge by snatching a cheaper deal, but also the promise to build the attacking department around him.

The 2000-year-old, who grew up in Watford before completing the youth ranks at Manchester City and Borussia Dortmund, Sancho made his senior debut right in Germany with the yellow and black jersey in the 2017-2018 season, establishing himself as one of the most interesting prospects in Europe. In 2021, the move to Manchester United, where, however, he never settled in: the Red Devils sent him on loan again to Borussia Dortmund in the second part of the 2023-2024 season, and to Chelsea in the year just ended. Sancho did not go to the Club World Cup with the Londoners, as the loan expired right in the middle of the rainbow event.

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